On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:31 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote: > I perfectly see the advantage of having a set of unique device icons for > different flash cards. It's undoubtedly easier to use if my desktop is > populated by distinguishable device icons. But in my view it's much > worse to have, say Bluecurve styled generic drive icon and 9 other > specific media icons that are of totally different graphical style than > to have 10 generic media drive icons.
(fwiw, Fedora's Bluecurve got full coverage of the current icons that gnome-vfs uses, probably why I haven't spotted this bug earlier) > I always intended to draw the specific media icons, but I really hope to > see infrastructure for getting the generic fallback in place first so > that theming is actually a solution and not an excuse. In the past I've > been adding specific icons to gnome icon theme, while not being able to > make them properly in all the required sizes, only to see distributions > fail to theme the set properly. The concept of themes makes us look > unpolished without a decent concept of generic fallback. So let's go > from generic to specific -- properly providing all sizes, ending up in a > consistently looking desktop sooner. Right, so, I don't think anyone disagrees with you here. And the icon naming spec with it's clever fallback schemes is a big part in getting this right. So, I think that the point of contention here is simply that Rodney decided to switch gnome-icon-theme completely to the icon-naming-spec before it was ready. And I think we can agree that the naming spec is not ready for GNOME since it doesn't meet the needs of gnome-vfs, yes? And, hey, I just wanted to help sort out this mess and I even wrote a patch but was told "this isn't about gnome-vfs" and "we need buyin from other desktops". That's fine if you have that point of view - but then, please, don't make GNOME use stuff that is not baked especially if you start rejecting good patches that fixes it. So I think the solution here in the interim (e.g. for 2.16) is to make gnome-icon-theme provide icons, not symlinks, of the stuff that was deleted. For example gnome-removable-media-cf and friends. I've raised this suggestion elsewhere to Rodney but he has not responded yet. I'm not on the release team but if I was this issue would be a blocker for our next release. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
